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Hydrocotyle L.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
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New Zealand
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L.
L.
1753
234
ICN
Hydrocotyle L.
genus
Hydrocotyle

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Hydrocotyle

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Hydrocotyle L.

Umbels simple, bracts 0 or minute. Fls. 5-merous; calyx-teeth us. obsolete; stamens inflexed in bud; styles filiform. Fr. laterally much-compressed, commissure very narrow, carpophore 0. Vittae 0 or sunk in primary rib or replaced by ± continuous oil-bearing layer. Mericarps with us. 1 (often obscure) rib on face. Seed invested by woody covering. Small perennial herbs. A widespread genus of some 75 spp., sts treated as constituting a separate family-Hydrocotylaceae. The N.Z. spp. are perennial herbs, often forming large patches; stems ± slender, branching, creeping, rooting at nodes; lvs us. clustered at nodes, simple to 3-5-foliolate, of ± orbicular-reniform order; stipules scalelike.

Hydrocotyle L.

2n = c. 160
2n = c. 96
2n = 72

Hydrocotyle L.

Glabrous or hairy, annual or perennial herbs, creeping and rooting at nodes. Lvs simple, ± entire to serrate, crenate, or palmately lobed or palmately 3-5-foliolate, petiolate, stipulate. Umbels simple or with successive whorls of fls; bracteoles small or 0. Petals white or green, tinged yellow or pink, with apex entire, acute, and not inflexed; calyx teeth small or 0. Fr. strongly laterally flattened and narrowed to commissure; mericarps orbicular or ovate; dorsal ribs acute, furrowed or obsolete; lateral ribs slender, acute, furrowed, or rarely obsolete; vittae in primary ribs or 0.

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Hydrocotyle L.
Australia
Hydrocotyle L.
Nepal
Hydrocotyle L.
New Zealand
Hydrocotyle L.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Hydrocotyle L.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Hydrocotyle L.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Hydrocotyle L.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Hydrocotyle L.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Hydrocotyle L.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Hydrocotyle L.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Hydrocotyle L.
New Zealand
Westland Land District
Hydrocotyle L.
United States

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8d03530b-802d-4b3c-a42d-86dc366507e6
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
5 July 2007
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